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Exxon-backed Fraser Institute readies attack on IPCC

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By Richard Littlemore
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The Fraser Institute, which has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil over the last three years, has issued a media advisory promising to release โ€œan independent summary of the latest United Nations (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report on climateโ€ on February 5, 2007.

The FI advisory derides the IPCC report as โ€œa brief document produced through negotiation by government bureaucrats. It is neither written by nor reviewed by the scientific community and has been criticized for its promotional tone and failure to adequately communicate the complexity and uncertainty of the underlying science around climateย change.โ€

The Fraser Institute report’s lead author is Canadian economist Dr. Ross McKitrick, best known for his attack on the now-famous โ€œhockey stick โ€ graph by Michael Mann, etย al.

The DeSmogBlog will follow later in the day with more background on McKitrick and Fraser Institute’s other โ€œclimate expertsโ€ involved in this anti-IPCCย report.

By Richard Littlemore

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